Description
The fund of knowledge in biomedical sciences has
increased dramatically in recent decades and continues to
accelerate at exponential rates of growth. As a result,
basic science education within many medical schools has
evolved in recent years away from traditional discipline
based teaching toward a variety of different forms of
multidisciplinary curricula.
This seminar will report the renovation of a
traditional medical school anatomy laboratory toward a new
type of learning environment that is driven by principles
of learning oriented instruction (LOI) across many
scientific disciplines as opposed to teaching oriented
instruction within an academic discipline.
Dr. Johnson will describe a strategy to renovate
and adapt a former discipline based dissection laboratory
for the new integration of multiple medical science
disciplines around clinical applications. This new
learning environment combines and augments learning
principles adapted from PBL and team learning methods. The
physical space, equipment and methods of instruction
within this new learning environment are adapted for the
seamless integration of many disciplines including: Gross
Anatomy, Tissue Histology, Neuroanatomy, Radiographic
Anatomy, Embryology, Physiology and Pathology. The
new laboratory learning experience is tightly focused on
the integration of all of these disciplines through tasks
that provide the context of clinical applications.
The
seminar will include a description of the renovation of
the laboratory space, learning tools and the web based
content for the novel learning environment. In addition, a
description will be provided for the strategy taken to
track learning outcomes through a learning objective
database. Finally, specific cognitive principles of
contextual and collaborative learning will be given as the
pedagogical principles guiding decisions for the
renovation of the former discipline based laboratory into
a new multidisciplinary learning environment.
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